Go to a LAN party with your dedicated game PC. Many gamers have a game PC they lug around, and a main PC for all other tasks.
And if you want to play online, connect your Game PC directly to your cable/DSL connection and you can play all you want.
Of course, I don't do games... so this is really not my problem.
Ah, easy! Avoid NAT: setup one kickass machine that connects to the cable/dsl, put Linux/*BSD on it with XFree. Finally build X-Terms (from old machines), and use them to access your server. All connections made to the net are in essence for the kick-ass server. Traffic on your onw network is only the stuff X needs to communicate.
Finally a excuse to switch your whole network to Linux/*BSD.;-)
I work currently at a large bank part of the Fortis Group that is entirely based on NT4. As a developper I have a kick-ass new machine, complete with XP sticker on it but it runs NT4.
Mission before that was a local insurance company, also completely NT4 based though left and right Win2000Pro is popping up.
And consider yourself damned lucky! I live in Luxembourg and we have our own nice little monopoly called P&T. I applied for my ISDN phoneline and the DSL connection last december (okay, really the 27th) and who still doesn't have a phoneline? Me! I haven't seen a single technician, I only got letters stating that my "application for a ISDN and DSL" have been accepted. Yet, still no sight of a technician.
On top of that I told them I didn't want their ISP services (they are too expensive) and in the shop they told me it was all okay. What do I find in my mail last week? Sure enough: username and password for their ISP.
Apart from that, it's really expensive. Count 87Euro/Month for slowest connection meaning 256Kbps/64kbps, that includes the phone service but yet it's very expensive compared to France, Belgium and Germany. Well, at least the don't block ports below 1024, so running your own server is no problem.
Then you might want to explain why I listen to Pink Floyd all the time, which is mainly from the 70ties, begin 80ties. Yet I never listen to my Gun 'n Roses CD's that are gathering dust somewhere in a closet. That was however, what I listened to when I was a teenager.
I bet there are lots of cases like this: my sister who is 5 years younger than me loves Bob Marley. Recent musician, eh?
Quality stays, and the yung'uns, will discover it sooner or later.
"iamdrscience"???
The green colour is because of oxidation... Hence the bright shiny copper will become green after some time, as you should know if you are Dr. Science. The repaired parts would certainly become green and it would be nearly indistinguishable from the original.
The Statue of Liberty undoubtly was shiny when they parts were constructed in France. I suspect they corroded quite fast by the transport over the ocean. She stand on an island (implying sea, implying salt water, implying faster corrosion), so expect the shiny parts to turn green very fast.
Okay, I know most of the systems you refer to (yes, I'm an oldie too). However if you described that graphical component in a rectangular area that you could drag around the screen, how did you call it back in the day? I'm pretty sure it was a "Window". That's about the point. Of course that is the singular form of the word.
I'm not going to start a flamewar about this. Enjoy your own opinion.
And how old is the phone? I've got a 6 year old Motorola (retired) that only has a phonebook, SMS and a few ringtones. It still works, but you cannot buy it anymore.
Can one still buy a Nokia 5170i? And doesn't the "i" mean internet? (Like on my current Siemens s35i)
Depends on where you live. I have a cellphone but I rarely use it to talk. Main usage is SMS (chicks love getting sweet SMS'es). Many people, mostly 12 to 25 years olds, exclusively use their cellphones for SMS. Talking? Yes, probably on fridaynight and saturdaynight to meet and it's SMS the rest of the time. So in a sense you could see SMS as Instant Messaging and thus like a classic PC application.
Also games are very popular on cells too. While I do not see the appeal, many seem to. I bought the most "business-like" phone I found, yet it still comes with 3 games. It's getting pretty hard to find "just a cellphone" without all the bloat. Try to find me a cellphone without Games, Calendar, Downloadable songs, on-screen animations, WAP, iMode or anything that doesn't belong on a cellphone. Only a contact list, talking function and SMS function... Find me such a beast and I'll agree there still are "just cellphones".
Besides, don't forget the Japanese. They surely seem to love iMode and they fancy cellphones.
While I agree that the whole "web on the phone" thing is something we don't really need, there are people that disagree with me, notably the Japanese. It's enterainment: we don't *need* entertainment but we want it and pay a lot for it.
I personally woudn't stand to have browse slashdot on my 4 square centimeter cellphone screen and most of the time I don't have use for it. However, what does happen is that when I'm really bored (or have to wait for a long time), I pull out my Psion Revo+ and download a complete comment page on Slashdot: hours of fun! Of course, the screen on my Psion is way larger than than a cellphone screen, but recent evolutions seem to integrate what we now know as PDA's and cellphones. This together with GPRS, could lead to more surfing on cellphones.
So the browser on the cellphone is important, not now, but we'll see it coming in the next years. And yes, on my Psion I use Opera and it rocks!
Re:Wow. How disgusting.
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Didn't get laid recently, right?
Seriously, what do you expect? Women are really rare in the field and everytime I meet a CS Chick I am a bit taken aback. But unlike you describe, most of us treat them as equals and not sex objects. Be glad you are a seldom perl. Okay, you're probably thrown to the pigs, but you stay a pearl.
Besides, you'll find sexism everywhere. It's not an excuse, but have you ever been in the health sector where you're the only guy between 17 nurses? No? Well, it's like a wasps nest and you try not to get stung!
Japanes fiscal years always start on 1 April. It's not an April fools thing at all. I work for a Japanese company, so I know.
As far as I'm informed even raising classes in school is around that period. They do not change like we do at the end of the summer. They raise in class "in the middle of the year". I might be wrong about this, but I'm sure about the fiscal year.
Well, I know the problem. I had the same problem: at work google kept pointing to www.google.fr in French. Even though I know french, I hate it when it does that: I wany my webpages in english and nothing else.
Anyway, if you use Internet Explorer (as I do at work), you just need to change the "Language" preference in the options. Mozilla has a similar functionaliyt as does Opera. Put English in top, and you're okay. Well, it fixed my problem with google.
I hate localization: I've never seen it done well, not in Windows, not in Java, not in Mac OS X. For some reason all programs expect you to talk French is you set your locale to "French". It is insane, since the localizaion should really just inpact the formatting of dates, time, currencies and numbers... not the language. I now always select the United Kindom locale and cutomize the formatting to my liking.
The first time I got in touch with localization was when Oracle ported their tools to Java. I fired up enterprise manager and in the menubar it said "Le Fichier" instead of "File". From that point on, my faith in localization was lost.
Choices: I chose to use Windows 2000, only for the OS. For applications I use non-MS stuff (Eudora/Mozilla/OpenOffice/CygWin) The best of the two worlds (Oh, and nowadays I use a Mac more than my diverse W2k Machines...I just like it more even if it is slower)
Flexibility: How long until Microsoft actually builds a Antivirus program in the OS? Add to this a nice little subscription (ala Symantec) for the updates. This is one of the things that I think is very probably to happen with their new all-improved-but-paying security policy.
Yeah, I know you meant it funny...but in every joke there is a hint of truth.
As said many times...GHz is no good measure. I just hope they will have memory chips that can cope. Best would be memory chips at 1.8GHz, but that will be wishfull thinking.
Yes, it took about 30 minutes to find all these things. I didn't get along well with Mac OS 9, but with OS X I was away in no time.
The reason why you are more familiar with KDE3, is that it acts much more than Windows than Mac OS X does. Let's stop this thread, it's getting too Offtopic and I lost too much karma lately.
Strange....I had no problems whatsoever switching. And I have been using Windows since the 3.0 days. Actually I like OS X more than Windows. But I suppose that it's all just a matter of taste.
I am going to check out blender, once the site is not slashdotted anymore.
Just have a vat of liquid nitogen, put in something (a rose for example), remove it and shatter it by throwing it on the floor (or use a hammer). Fun experiment, and looks impressive with the fumes of the liquid nitrogen;-)
I wouldn't try the hand-in-boiling-lead anytime soon. Back when I was a kid, I made figures out of lead and I got some nice burns because of that. Lead splatting on your hands is not fun, and the Leidenfrost experiment didn't really help.
This thing looks like a Pentium II processor on legs!
Stop my CPU, it is running away because I did too much PovRay!;-)
Great! Everone who loves OpenBSD should support!
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I am a BSD guy, and I'm pleased you help the cause! So do I, I checked the openbsd website daily because I knew preordering was going to be possible very soon. So today, I logged in, saw one could preorder, did my preorder and my yearly donation. Then I checked slashdot and saw this story;-) If you like a project, just support it...especially if you still are employed and can spare a few Euro's.
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And if you want to play online, connect your Game PC directly to your cable/DSL connection and you can play all you want.
Of course, I don't do games... so this is really not my problem.
Ah, easy! Avoid NAT: setup one kickass machine that connects to the cable/dsl, put Linux/*BSD on it with XFree. Finally build X-Terms (from old machines), and use them to access your server. All connections made to the net are in essence for the kick-ass server. Traffic on your onw network is only the stuff X needs to communicate. ;-)
Finally a excuse to switch your whole network to Linux/*BSD.
I work currently at a large bank part of the Fortis Group that is entirely based on NT4. As a developper I have a kick-ass new machine, complete with XP sticker on it but it runs NT4.
Mission before that was a local insurance company, also completely NT4 based though left and right Win2000Pro is popping up.
No, I don't like it... but support for NT4 is dropped at 30 june 2003 and that's not really far away.
+5, Insightful in my eyes. Welcome to my friends list.
And consider yourself damned lucky! I live in Luxembourg and we have our own nice little monopoly called P&T. I applied for my ISDN phoneline and the DSL connection last december (okay, really the 27th) and who still doesn't have a phoneline? Me! I haven't seen a single technician, I only got letters stating that my "application for a ISDN and DSL" have been accepted. Yet, still no sight of a technician.
On top of that I told them I didn't want their ISP services (they are too expensive) and in the shop they told me it was all okay. What do I find in my mail last week? Sure enough: username and password for their ISP.
Apart from that, it's really expensive. Count 87Euro/Month for slowest connection meaning 256Kbps/64kbps, that includes the phone service but yet it's very expensive compared to France, Belgium and Germany. Well, at least the don't block ports below 1024, so running your own server is no problem.
I bet there are lots of cases like this: my sister who is 5 years younger than me loves Bob Marley. Recent musician, eh?
Quality stays, and the yung'uns, will discover it sooner or later.
Not knee jerking alarmists? Recall the P-III CPU-ID...
The green colour is because of oxidation... Hence the bright shiny copper will become green after some time, as you should know if you are Dr. Science. The repaired parts would certainly become green and it would be nearly indistinguishable from the original.
The Statue of Liberty undoubtly was shiny when they parts were constructed in France. I suspect they corroded quite fast by the transport over the ocean. She stand on an island (implying sea, implying salt water, implying faster corrosion), so expect the shiny parts to turn green very fast.
I'm not going to start a flamewar about this. Enjoy your own opinion.
Well, I did... Two words for you: X Windows
Oh, and what about WindowMaker . Not as clear as X Windows , but really close.
And how old is the phone? I've got a 6 year old Motorola (retired) that only has a phonebook, SMS and a few ringtones. It still works, but you cannot buy it anymore.
Can one still buy a Nokia 5170i? And doesn't the "i" mean internet? (Like on my current Siemens s35i)
Also games are very popular on cells too. While I do not see the appeal, many seem to. I bought the most "business-like" phone I found, yet it still comes with 3 games. It's getting pretty hard to find "just a cellphone" without all the bloat. Try to find me a cellphone without Games, Calendar, Downloadable songs, on-screen animations, WAP, iMode or anything that doesn't belong on a cellphone. Only a contact list, talking function and SMS function... Find me such a beast and I'll agree there still are "just cellphones".
Besides, don't forget the Japanese. They surely seem to love iMode and they fancy cellphones.
I personally woudn't stand to have browse slashdot on my 4 square centimeter cellphone screen and most of the time I don't have use for it. However, what does happen is that when I'm really bored (or have to wait for a long time), I pull out my Psion Revo+ and download a complete comment page on Slashdot: hours of fun! Of course, the screen on my Psion is way larger than than a cellphone screen, but recent evolutions seem to integrate what we now know as PDA's and cellphones. This together with GPRS, could lead to more surfing on cellphones.
So the browser on the cellphone is important, not now, but we'll see it coming in the next years. And yes, on my Psion I use Opera and it rocks!
Seriously, what do you expect? Women are really rare in the field and everytime I meet a CS Chick I am a bit taken aback. But unlike you describe, most of us treat them as equals and not sex objects. Be glad you are a seldom perl. Okay, you're probably thrown to the pigs, but you stay a pearl.
Besides, you'll find sexism everywhere. It's not an excuse, but have you ever been in the health sector where you're the only guy between 17 nurses? No? Well, it's like a wasps nest and you try not to get stung!
Japanes fiscal years always start on 1 April. It's not an April fools thing at all. I work for a Japanese company, so I know.
As far as I'm informed even raising classes in school is around that period. They do not change like we do at the end of the summer. They raise in class "in the middle of the year". I might be wrong about this, but I'm sure about the fiscal year.
Anyway, if you use Internet Explorer (as I do at work), you just need to change the "Language" preference in the options. Mozilla has a similar functionaliyt as does Opera. Put English in top, and you're okay. Well, it fixed my problem with google.
I hate localization: I've never seen it done well, not in Windows, not in Java, not in Mac OS X. For some reason all programs expect you to talk French is you set your locale to "French". It is insane, since the localizaion should really just inpact the formatting of dates, time, currencies and numbers... not the language. I now always select the United Kindom locale and cutomize the formatting to my liking.
The first time I got in touch with localization was when Oracle ported their tools to Java. I fired up enterprise manager and in the menubar it said "Le Fichier" instead of "File". From that point on, my faith in localization was lost.
Flexibility: How long until Microsoft actually builds a Antivirus program in the OS? Add to this a nice little subscription (ala Symantec) for the updates. This is one of the things that I think is very probably to happen with their new all-improved-but-paying security policy.
Yeah, I know you meant it funny...but in every joke there is a hint of truth.
As said many times...GHz is no good measure. I just hope they will have memory chips that can cope. Best would be memory chips at 1.8GHz, but that will be wishfull thinking.
Yes, it took about 30 minutes to find all these things. I didn't get along well with Mac OS 9, but with OS X I was away in no time.
The reason why you are more familiar with KDE3, is that it acts much more than Windows than Mac OS X does. Let's stop this thread, it's getting too Offtopic and I lost too much karma lately.
Strange....I had no problems whatsoever switching. And I have been using Windows since the 3.0 days. Actually I like OS X more than Windows. But I suppose that it's all just a matter of taste.
I am going to check out blender, once the site is not slashdotted anymore.
Now *that* is cool... I should try it the next time I have liquid nitrogen at hands...not that that happens often :-)
Just have a vat of liquid nitogen, put in something (a rose for example), remove it and shatter it by throwing it on the floor (or use a hammer). Fun experiment, and looks impressive with the fumes of the liquid nitrogen ;-)
I wouldn't try the hand-in-boiling-lead anytime soon. Back when I was a kid, I made figures out of lead and I got some nice burns because of that. Lead splatting on your hands is not fun, and the Leidenfrost experiment didn't really help.
This thing looks like a Pentium II processor on legs! ;-)
Stop my CPU, it is running away because I did too much PovRay!
I am a BSD guy, and I'm pleased you help the cause! So do I, I checked the openbsd website daily because I knew preordering was going to be possible very soon. So today, I logged in, saw one could preorder, did my preorder and my yearly donation. Then I checked slashdot and saw this story ;-)
If you like a project, just support it...especially if you still are employed and can spare a few Euro's.